The Greek Gods in Homer's The Odyssey and the God of Abraham in the Bible both play the feared and respected role of the master while the humans act as their subordinates. Although the Gods are similar in their master-servant relationship with humans, their nature and moral values differ sharply from god to god. The destiny of humans is driven by Poseidon's fickle nature or Athena's passionate personality or the God of Abraham's just and forgiving tendency. Even the power humans supposedly have over their own destiny is based on the amount of freewill given to them by each of the gods. The tragic journey faced by Odysseus, the exile of Cain, and the rewarding life given to Abraham, Moses and Job are instances where clashes between gods or a consistent agreement with the god's beliefs shape human lives.
             The Greek Gods and the God of Abraham are powerful beings that demand service and sacrifice from humans and favor those that satisfy their requirements. However, the demands of all the Greek Gods are hard to satisfy as there is a lack of agreement of what makes a human more favorable over another or what is necessary for a human to repent a sin because of the gods' different natures. The Greek Gods are given human-like characteristics, such as anger, jealousy, sympathy and love, and therefore illustrate the human-like tendency to make arbitrary and irrational decisions or have
             unreasonable desires. As the narrator writes "Yet all the gods had pitied Lord Odysseus,/all but Poseidon, raging cold and rough...". (I, 31-32) Poseidon's stubborn and vengeful nature led to Odysseus's tragedy at sea and his fickleness led him to inflict punishment without first considering the intent behind actions. Although hospitality is favored by the gods, Poseidon unjustly punishes the Phaiakians for transporting Odysseus back to Ithaka not because the Phaiakian's actions were sinful but because t...